The eCommerce Platform

eCommerce platforms have become an integral part of our lives in recent times. In the past, people tend to go shopping at stores and interact with sellers in person.

Savan Koradia
Salesforce Commerce Cloud Tales

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Now, it is changed after the eCommerce platform, many people especially the new generation always eager to place orders online. Such a platform gives unique value propositions to customers in a way that people get an addiction to it. eCommerce platforms have contributed around Trillion plus in market share worldwide in the last decade and are all to set hit more in this decade.

There are many eCommerce platforms that are very popular like OpenCart, PrestaShop, Magento, Shopify, SFCC. Each platform has its own unique value propositions and base, which come with its own merits and demerits. As a developer, I worked on multiple eCommerce platforms from implementing plugin modules to supporting the owners on various stages of their success. Each success story of every owner is unique on its own. The latest platform I have been working is SFCC aka Demandware. Most platforms I have worked with are mostly on PHP and are quite a favorite among shop owners. The reasons behind that are as follows:

  • Server using PHP is easier to manage.
  • PHP language is easier to learn…

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Savan Koradia
Salesforce Commerce Cloud Tales

SFCC Solution Architect, Mentor. I write about technical learning, improvements, work culture, mentoring.